Happiness: scenes one and two
1. Passing the sign for the Stone Zoo on Rte. 93 northbound, racketing along in a little teal car whose side mirror keeps tilting up.
Homeboy: Hey, let’s go see some stones!
djd: They’re not in season.
H: True. I picked one up at the supermarket the other day and it was hard as a rock.
2. Eating fried clams/oysters in Nickledean (said teal car) across from the very modest house next door to the Clam Box, currently populated by a log fence, a badminton net, a stern NO PARKING sign, and a woman with a shrieky voice.
H: Let’s move into that house and eat fried clams three times a day for the rest of our lives.
d: Yeah, for the rest of our hugely shortened lives.
xx
djd
p.s. Checked local media-watcher blogs for thoughts on today’s Globe union vote. Dan Kennedy criticized an op-ed by media guy Doug Bailey criticizing an unnamed blog’s reliance on Globe web comments (got that?) and, going farther, web comments in general. Read the op-ed. Saw:
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